Abstract: A new and unique hybrid cultivar of Phlox plant named ‘Fancy Girl’ of medium-height, multi-stemmed, upright habit. Foliage is lanceolate, medium-green, with good powdery mildew resistance on stiff stems. The new plant has Soft pink flowers with darker pink star-shaped center and near-white halo that are produced on large heads of branched peduncles and nearly cover the top of the plant beginning mid-July and continuing and reblooming for about six weeks through late summer. ‘Fancy Girl’ is especially suitable as a potted plant, for the garden, for attracting hummingbirds and butterflies, and for cut flower arrangements.

Abstract: The new hybrid Aruncus plant named ‘Goatee’ with sharply-lobed, dentate, tri-pinnately compound, dark-green foliage holding well into the season. Light creamy buds transition to near-white flowers on airy scapes, above foliage on heavily branched panicles with nearly horizontal branches.

Abstract: A new and distinct Heartleaf Bergenia plant, Bergenia plant named ‘Happily Ever After’ with a dense mounded habit, medium-sized, densely-arranged, deep-green, glossy, obovate, evergreen foliage, and large, white becoming lightly blushed with pink, campanulate flowers on tall upright panicles over a long period beginning in spring. The flowers hold up well in the garden as a landscape plant or as cut flowers. The foliage develops a reddish blush on the front and deeper red on the back with cool fall temperatures. The new plant has a medium growth rate and the foliage is naturally resistant to deer and rabbit foraging.

Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental, hardy, Wormwood, Artemesia plant named ‘Silver Lining’ with a broad mounded habit of strong dense stems that remain upright through the growing season and do not open in the center of the plant. The new plant is vigorous with many large, durable, distally-lobed, broad, irregularly, and deeply dissected foliage of silver-white. 19 - 1 - 6 = A . ludoviciana ? Silver ? Queen × A .

Abstract: A new and unique x Hansara plant named ‘Jumping Jack Flash’ characterized by compact mounded habit and upright curving, lanceolate foliage with grayish-green color and in high ultraviolet light exposure developing margins of burgundy speckling on top and bottom. The leaf tips are narrowly acute without mucros. The marginal teeth are small and flexible. The plant is suitable as a potted plant patio, for the garden, or for use as a houseplant.

Abstract: A new and distinct Bellflower, Campanula plant named ‘Twilight’ with a dense, compact, mounded habit; cordate to deltoid dark-green foliage and numerous medium purplish-blue campanulate flowers with pale bluish centers flowering for about 14 weeks beginning late spring and continuing until hard frost. The new plant is suitable for landscaping as a specimen, en masse, or in containers.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Allium plant named ‘Pincushion’, with glaucous, upright, stiff, strap-like, slightly-twisted green foliage, and numerous, tightly-clustered, light lavender-purple flowers forming in densely-arranged globose umbels over a long period beginning in early August. Strong stems hold the flower heads upright through flowering and seed production. The new plant is deer and rabbit-resistant and makes an attractive plant for the garden.

Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Chance Encounter’ of large, arching mounds of broadly ovate, bluish-green leaves having wide chartreuse margins upon emerging and maturing to yellowish-chartreuse margins. The variegation is also attractively displayed with numerous featherings of intermediate colors between the center and the leaf margins. The flowers are very pale purple to near white held just above the foliage beginning in late June for about three weeks. ‘Chance Encounter’ has an excellent, very large, mounded habit and is useful in the landscape, as a specimen or en masse.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Stokesia laevis plant named ‘Riptide’ with extended blooming of composite flowers having periwinkle-blue ray florets and purplish-blue disk florets just above the deep-green foliage of compact rounded plants from early summer until fall. The new plant is suitable for garden landscapes, in containers, or as a cut flower.

Abstract: A new hybrid Clematis plant, ‘Stand by Me Pink’, of compact, medium height, non-vining habit with ovate leaves and dark purple buds producing nodding flowers with typically four reflexed tepals of pinkish-lavender beginning late May to June and reblooming through late summer.

Abstract: A new and distinct Bellflower, Campanula plant named ‘Twilight’ with a dense, compact, mounded habit; cordate to deltoid dark-green foliage and numerous medium purplish-blue campanulate flowers with pale bluish centers flowering for about 14 weeks beginning late spring and continuing until hard frost. The new plant is suitable for landscaping as a specimen, en masse, or in containers.

Abstract: A new and distinct plant cultivar of little bluestem plant, Schizachyrium scoparium ‘Brush Strokes’ has a dense, upright habit with long arching lower foliage. Early foliage coloration is bluish-green which develops purplish-grey highlights by early autumn. The flowers remain effective with purplish tinting into winter.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Delosperma plant named ‘Pink Radiance’ is disclosed, characterized by abundant large flowers with petals of light lilac on the outside and rosy-purple on the inside nearly covering the plant. Plants have a low, mounding habit, and are tolerant to at least USDA zone 6. The new plant is useful for its bright flowers and low habit in the landscape or as a container plant.

Abstract: A unique cultivar of the Spigelia plant named ‘Apple Slices’ is characterized by vigorous, dense, upright, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with dark-green, lanceolate leaves. Flowering begins in early June and continues for about four or five weeks, repeating in the fall. Petals are reddish on the outside and butter yellow with a slight blush of red on the inside. The new plant is especially suitable for a cut flower, for the landscape as a potted plant, and in the garden as a specimen or en masse.

Abstract: A new and unique x Hansara plant named ‘Jumping Jack Flash’ characterized by compact mounded habit and upright curving, lanceolate foliage with grayish-green color and in high ultraviolet light exposure developing margins of burgundy speckling on top and bottom. The leaf tips are narrowly acute without mucros. The marginal teeth are small and flexible. The plant is suitable as a potted plant patio, for the garden, or for use as a houseplant.

Abstract: A new and distinct Heartleaf Bergenia plant, Bergenia plant named ‘Fairytale Romance’ with a dense mounded habit, medium-sized, densely-arranged, deep-green, glossy, obovate, evergreen foliage, and large, apple-blossom-pink, campanulate flowers on large heavily-branched panicles over a long period beginning in spring. The flowers hold up well in the garden as a landscape plant or as cut flowers. The new plant has a medium growth rate and is naturally resistant to deer and rabbit foraging.

Abstract: A new and unique X Mangave plant named ‘Living on a Prayer’ characterized by habit that is a rounded mound and becomes globose to pyriform-shaped in maturity. The numerous lanceolate leaves are dark olive-green with marbled white to whitish-green and have large, firm, deep wine-colored apical mucro and thin reddish-brown margins and small marginal teeth. The new plant is suitable as a potted houseplant plant, as a container plant for the patio or garden and for the garden or planted in the landscape.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Epimedium plant named ‘Cranberry Dancer’ characterized by its medium size habit and evergreen foliage with flowers that are burgundy spurs with yellowish tips and prominent burgundy sepals with white margins on airy branched corymbs beginning in mid-spring. The foliage has three leaflets of light chartreuse with bronze coloring in cooler conditions and becoming deep green in summer.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Epimedium plant named ‘Dream Catcher’ characterized by its medium size habit, evergreen foliage. The flowers are light yellow spurs with reddish sepals on airy branched corymbs beginning in late spring. The foliage has three leaflets of light chartreuse with blotches of burgundy in cooler conditions and becoming deep green in summer.

Abstract: A new and distinct Yarrow, Achillea plant named ‘Firefly Fuchsia’, with billowy habit, medium green, moderately incised to parted foliage, and large, bright lavender-pink florets that lighten to light pink on heavily-branched compound corymbs; tall, stiff, heavily branched peduncles with deep fuchsia-pink florets that mature to light pink, beginning in late June and continuing for about seven weeks and repeating if deadheaded. The new plant is useful for landscaping, as a specimen or en masse, and as a cut flower.